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Living inauthentically5 quotes
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh · 1955You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde · 1897The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first. — Jim Morrison · 1981Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1873Alienation from oneself1 quote
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde · 1897Authenticity1 quote
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first. — Jim Morrison · 1981Life1 quote
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1873Life as performance1 quote
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1873Lying to oneself1 quote
You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960Regret1 quote
You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960